Property Types  Industrial
AMB Inks Kimberly-Clark to 516,000SF Seattle Area Industrial Lease
Jul 16, 2009

AMB Property Corp. has leased more than 516,000 square feet of industrial space to health and hygiene company Kimberly-Clark, at AMB’s East Valley Warehouse in the Kent Valley submarket of Seattle. Kimberly-Clark is relocating and consolidating their existing northwest regional distribution operations. The new lease will be effective Sept. 1.

"This is the largest new lease for an industrial asset in the Kent Valley in the last decade, demonstrating that well-located and high-quality assets remain strategic to companies during the downturn," said Mark Saturno, an AMB managing director.

AMB's East Valley Warehouse is located in the center of Kent Valley between the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, near to several major area highways. AMB's Seattle portfolio of operating and development properties totaled more than 8.6 million square feet and was approximately 97 percent leased as of March 31, 2009.

 
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$4.2B Semiconductor Facility in Upstate NY Likely to Spark New Opportunities
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After three years of Silicon Valley-based GlobalFoundries and the State of New York working together to lay the financial groundwork, construction of GlobalFoundries' $4.2 billion semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility at the new 1,400-acre Luther Forest Technology Campus in Malta, N.Y., has just commenced. Officials expect the GlobalFoundries development to create 1,400 new manufacturing jobs, and they are keeping their fingers crossed that the 1.3-million-square-foot Fab 2 will spur additional investment in the area.
 
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